Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Ankeny Arsonist
by G.G. Morris
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Daughter of a famous chanteuse, Wanda Whipple prefers sleuthing to champagne and caviar. When an arsonist lights up the mayor’s home, Wanda’s investigative skills are put to a trial by fire…literally!
Before long, a body is discovered in the rubble of the mayor’s home, and the hunt is on for a killer. Wanda’s old flame heads up the investigation, but Detective Rubio’s no match for Wanda’s talent for smoking out a suspect. Wanda soon learns, however, if you play with fire you’re apt to get burned. Can Wanda catch the Ankeny arsonist before she becomes the next victim?
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The Blood Gospel
by James Rollins, Rebecca Cantrell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell combine their talents in a gothic tale about anancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as . . . The Blood Gospel.
An earthquake in Masada, Israel, kills hundreds and reveals a tomb buried in the heart of the mountain. A trio of investigators–Sergeant Jordan Stone, a military forensic expert; Father Rhun Korza, a Vatican priest; and Dr. Erin Granger, a brilliant but disillusioned archaeologist–are sent to explore the macabre discovery, a subterranean temple holding the crucified body of a mummified girl.
Blood Like Mine
by Stuart Neville
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In Stuart Neville’s horror debut, a mother’s undying love and a daughter’s insatiable hunger carve a bloody trail across the highways of the Southwest.
On a cold December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway. She is at the end of her rope, out of money and food. Still, she refuses help from a passing stranger. Rebecca’s adolescent daughter, Moonflower, is on the run from a grisly secret, and the last thing they can afford is to be remembered.
With No One As Witness
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s chilling 13th novel in the Inspector Lynley series
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley faces the greatest challenge of his career.
When an adolescent boy’s nude body is found draped over a tomb in a graveyard, the police recognize the work of a serial killer who’s been murdering boys in London. This is the killer’s fourth victim but the first to be white…
What the Night Knows
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the late summer of a long-ago year, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy.
Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood’s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family—his wife and three children—will be targets, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer.
The Babysitter
by Diana Diamond
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
How far will one man and his wife go to protect their privileged lives? Gordon Acton is a well heeled Congressional candidate and hopes to attract votes by hiring a young minority woman as a babysitter for their children during their summer on Cape Cod. Theresa Santiago is wise beyond her years as well as alluringly attractive. But is she the answer to the Actons’ domestic woes and political aspirations, or a threat to everything they hold dear? After a drunken tryst with Theresa, Gordon finds himself scrambling protect his reputation. And his wife Ellie is accused her of plaigiarism on her dissertation and worse.
Wicked Business
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times mega-bestselling author, is back and better than ever, proving that when it comes to hunting down bad guys and hidden treasure, the real fun is in the chase.
When Harvard University English professor and dyed-in-the-wool romantic Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered and thrown off his fourth-floor balcony, Lizzy and Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for the Luxuria Stone, an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with the power of lust. Following clues contained in a cryptic nineteenth-century book of sonnets, Lizzy and Diesel tear through Boston catacombs, government buildings, and multimillion-dollar residences, leaving a trail of robbed graves, public disturbances, and spontaneous seduction.
Pet Whisperer P.I. Books 1-3
by Molly Fitz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Quirky humor? Small-town crimes? A talking cat? This boxed set has it all.
When Angie Russo survives a freak accident involving a rogue coffee maker, she wakes up with a strange new ability: she can talk to animals. Well, one animal in particular—a very spoiled and extremely talkative tabby named Octavius.
He insists his former owner was murdered, and Angie is the only one who can solve the case. She doesn’t exactly have experience in crime solving, but it turns out she’s a quick study. Soon, Angie and Octo-Cat are neck-deep in whacky whodunits, from canine eyewitnesses and riddle-speaking Sphynx cats to suspects who are all too human.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at a Musical Retreat
by P. C. James
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Accused of murder, a violinist pleads for help. Can this retired sleuth stop a concert of discordant deaths?
Tom Ramsay is finding his rhythm. So when local authorities ask the former inspector to advise their top suspect in a killing, he cautiously agrees to evaluate the evidence. And though the young woman’s pleas of innocence ring false, the dogged detective can’t ignore a whisper of doubt — especially when another musician turns up dead.
Chasing stolen instruments, backstage shadows, and missing money, Ramsay composes a long list of alternative suspects. But instincts alone can’t clear his client’s name and the frustrated Scot is running out of time.
The Boy
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime? #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag keeps you guessing in her most harrowing thriller yet.
When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he’s ever seen. Genevieve’s seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well. Meanwhile, Nick’s wife, Detective Annie Broussard, sits with the grieving Genevieve. A mother herself, Annie understands the devastation this woman is going through, but as a detective she’s troubled: Who would murder a child and leave the only witness behind?
Night People
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
No one is who they seem
Private Investigator Wyatt Thomas takes a seductive journey through the dark, glittering streets of New Orleans, where passion and danger collide. Wyatt is no stranger to the Crescent City’s secrets, but when a mysterious voodoo mambo draws him into the heart of the French Quarter’s underworld, he finds himself entangled in a web of deceit, lust, and murder. As the nights grow hotter, so do the stakes, and Wyatt must navigate the twisted desires of the city’s most dangerous inhabitants. But in the world of the Night People, no one is who they seem—and Wyatt is playing a game that could cost him more than just his heart.
Killer Smile
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
With her trademark wit and style, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers yet another blockbuster thriller
With the halfhearted okay of her boss at the boutique Philly firm of Rosato & Associates, insecure young lawyer Mary DiNunzio takes on a pro bono case – which is Latin for not paying squat. What’s more, the client is dead and the case is half a century old, involving an Italian fisherman interned at a camp in Montana during World War II.
Mary wants to prove herself, but she ends up drowning in documents—and a lost cause. Add to that a colleague who keeps fixing her up with blind dates from hell…
The Girl Behind the Gates
by Brenda Davies
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1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happy future – until one night of passion has more catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of those who are supposed to care for her.
1981. When psychiatrist Janet Humphreys comes across Nora, heavily institutionalised and still living in the hospital more than forty years after her incarceration, she knows that she must be the one to help Nora rediscover what it is to live. But as she works to help Nora overcome her past, Janet realises she must finally face her own.
The Golden One
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers. But it is son Ramses who faces the most dire threat, answering a call that will carry him to the fabled seaport of Gaza on a mission as personal as it is perilous – where death will be the certain consequence of exposure. While far away, Ramses’s beautiful wife, Nefret, guards a secret of her own. . . .
The Twisted Ones
by T. Kingfisher
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.
Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you.
Southern Greed
by Peggy Holloway
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Having led a sheltered life—except for a major trauma—twenty-three-year-old Belinda easily falls in love with the handsome, suave Adam. He talks her into running a scam. An extremely wealthy woman is dying and wants to find her granddaughter, who disappeared at three years old. Belinda agrees to pretend to be Kathy, the granddaughter, but while exploring the mansion she has flashbacks and wonders if she really is Kathy.
After she marries Adam, his actions sometimes indicate that it was only for the inheritance. Kathy suspects that her grandmother is being poisoned. She doesn’t know who to trust in the household: her grandmother’s doctor, the nurse, the chef, the memoirist, even her husband.
Experiences of the Paranormal
by Terry Fox
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
In Experiences of the Paranormal: Real Conversations with Demons, author and paranormal pastor Terry Fox shares personal experiences from hundreds of paranormal cases, revealing how to confront and defeat demons through deliverance and exorcisms.
With a biblical worldview and the power of the Holy Spirit, this book shows how to bring light to those trapped in darkness and hopelessness. Terry offers insights on discerning between mental health issues and spiritual warfare, helping readers recognize and respond to unseen spiritual threats.
Queen of the Bay
by J. Clare
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
How far will a woman go for love? He suspects she’s out to steal his daughter’s legacy. He seems too good to be true. They thought they met by accident. Who’s calling the shots?
When Amanda West’s mother died, her father’s grief turned to rage and alcoholism. So, Amanda did what he told her. She abandoned her father and the Chesapeake Bay for Washington, throwing herself into her work as a CIA logistics officer. It’s been a decade, and she hasn’t visited home since. That is, until a vintage letter postmarked “Jamestown” with rare $2,000 stamps shows up in her mailbox.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Lion in the Valley
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplaces of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses – and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death – have alerted Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead…
Dead Ringer
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Bennie Rosato is fighting the battle of her life – against her own twin. The action starts innocently enough, with a stolen wallet, but in no time events escalate and the twin wreaks havoc that can be created only by a dead ringer. Her twin tries to destroy Bennie’s law firm, Rosato & Associates, and then strikes at her very heart – which just happens to be otherwise engaged by a handsome, hunky stranger with the perfect amount of chest hair. But when a brutal murder occurs, Bennie realizes that the stakes have turned deadly. And the face of evil looks like her own.
Digital Assassins III
by Danielle Spencer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Before the cyberterrorism, before the digital assassination, before Danielle Spencer —there was Ruth.
In this powerful prequel to the Digital Assassins series, Danielle Spencer takes readers deep into the roots of corruption at the Financial Revenue Service (FRS) through the unfiltered voice of Ruth, a long-serving insider who witnessed it all.
Digital Assassins III: Improper, Reprehensible, Scandals exposes the hidden history of an agency built on cronyism, systemic abuse, and impunity. Ruth recounts how powerful White men used their positions to protect each other, cover up sexual harassment, silence whistleblowers, and ignore misogyny, sexism, and racism—creating a culture where injustice thrived in the shadows.
Under the Bridge
by Rebecca Godfrey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home.
In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls—and boy—accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.
Drakethorn Legal Complete Series
by Isabel Campbell, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When you piss off the high and mighty some get righteously angry.
By day, Anastasia “Stacy” Drakethorn wields her Juris Doctorate as a blade of justice, carving through the corruption festering in the heart of the city. An attorney with a keen mind for the law and a fierce heart for the underdog, she’s determined to level the playing field against a system designed to favor the rich, the powerful, and the corrupt.
By night, there’s another side to the story. In the shadowed alleys where legal argument.
What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author returns to the compelling terrain of Every Secret Thing and To the Power of Three with this indelible story of crime and vengeance in which the past becomes all-too-present.
When he’s called to the scene of an accident detective Kevin Infante is drawn into a shocking and puzzling crime that still haunts the Baltimore P.D. Twenty years ago, two little girls were kidnapped from a shopping mall, igniting fear and anger throughout the city.
Killing Reagan
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Told in the same riveting fashion as Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, and Killing Patton, Killing Reagan reaches back to the golden days of Hollywood, where Reagan found both fame and heartbreak, up through the years in the California governor’s mansion, and finally to the White House, where he presided over boom years and the fall of the Iron Curtain. But it was John Hinckley Jr.’s attack on him that precipitated President Reagan’s most heroic actions. In Killing Reagan, O’Reilly and Dugard take readers behind the scenes, creating an unforgettable portrait of a great man operating in violent times.
Zeroes
by Chuck Wendig
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An Anonymous-style rabble rouser, an Arab spring hactivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an online troll are each offered a choice: go to prison or help protect the United States, putting their brains and skills to work for the government for one year.
But being a white-hat doesn’t always mean you work for the good guys. The would-be cyberspies discover that behind the scenes lurks a sinister NSA program, an artificial intelligence code-named Typhon, that has origins and an evolution both dangerous and disturbing. And if it’s not brought down, will soon be uncontrollable.
Kiss Her Goodbye
by Lisa Gardner
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Recent Afghan refugee and young mother Sabera Ahmadi was last seen exiting her place of work three weeks ago. The local police have yet to open a case, while her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. At the insistence of Sabera’s closest friend, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search just in time for a video of Sabera to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder.
Frankie quickly notes there’s much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye. The father Isaad is a brilliant mathematician, Sabera a gifted linguist, and their little girl Zahra has an uncanny ability to remember anything she sees.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
One of the most beloved characters in mystery/suspense fiction, archeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody bravely faces gravest peril in Cairo on the eve of World War One in New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters’s magnificent Egyptian adventure, He Shall Thunder in the Sky. The San Francisco Examiner calls these heart-racing exploits of Amelia and her courageous family, the Emersons, “pure delight.” But perhaps the New York Times Book Review states it best: “Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it’s Amelia—in wit and daring—by a landslide.”
Lady Killer
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A young lawyer searches for her missing rival from high school and finds more than she bargained for, in the latest high-octane thriller from New York Times bestselling author
She’s bright, witty, and dynamically attractive. So why can’t Mary DiNunzio still get a date? While her love life is frozen, her career is heating up. She’s become quite a rainmaker at her law firm, attracting new clients from her loyal South Philly fan base. But of all the friends-from-down-the-block, second cousins, and ersatz uncles who come for help, that last person she expects to see is Trish Gambini, a super-foxy hair colorist—and Mary’s high school rival.
Triumphs of Tenacity
by Yusra Mariyam
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Triumphs of Tenacity is an inspiring memoir by Yusra Mariyam, chronicling her remarkable journey from a young girl in Bangladesh to a UK graduate.
At seven, Yusra faced the daunting challenge of adapting to a new culture and language. Despite numerous setbacks, including academic failures and personal heartbreaks, she never lost sight of her dreams. Yusra’s transformation is profound. From a homemaker with no qualifications, raising six children, she emerged as a First-Class Honours graduate in International Business Management.
The Wife Upstairs
by Rachel Hawkins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates– – a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.
But her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddie – –not only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she’s always yearned for.
God of War
by Jeff Rovin, Tom Clancy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The passengers and crew on an Airbus en route to Australia suddenly begin coughing up blood and hemorrhaging violently as the plane plunges to the ground. There are no survivors.
A luxury yacht in the South Indian Sea blows up, and a lone woman escapes the contagion that has inexplicably killed everyone else on the boat. A helicopter whose occupants have been stricken by an unknown illness crashes into a bridge in South Africa, killing motorists and pedestrians.
People of Darkness
by Tony Hillerman
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The fourth novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman’s highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series.
A dying man is murdered. A rich man’s wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where everything good struggles to survive, including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished. And only one man will walk away…
Badlands
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found—and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands—lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods.
Is it suicide or… sacrifice?
Sweet William
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
William Ellsworth was just nine when he watched his father die in the streets, and he swore he’d never meet the same fate. Years later, he finds honest work on the Holt ranch outside Haven’s Creek. Colonel Ephraim Holt, a retired Army officer, treats him like a son. And Annie Sutton, who runs the general shop, makes him believe there might be more to life than hard work and silence.
It seems that William’s past is just that, and his future is brighter than ever. But all of these lasted only a while…
Thunders over Idle Land
by R. F. Whong
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A hero’s adventure… Two eras, one troubled land, two men bound by parallel existences across centuries.
Jason Guan, an assistant director dedicated to environmental conservation in pandemic-stricken Hong Kong, is worried about job-related pressures and petty quarrels threatening his marriage to Debra. Amidst the chaos, they discover an unpublished manuscript by Debra’s late father, a celebrated writer, about a wronged man in nineteenth-century China. While Jason grapples with corruption and lax regulations in wetland preservation, he is thrust into dangerous waters.
In 1834, systemic corruption cripples China and ruins lives. Two weeks before Wang Jun is to marry his beloved fiancée, he is thrown into a maximum-security prison on a remote island without a trial. His only ally? A kung fu master and medical doctor imprisoned because of a riddle linked to the buried treasure of the pirate chief, Cheng Po-Tsai.
The House of Lies
by Anita Waller
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Four friends. One betrayal. And a revenge that didn’t die with him. A chilling domestic thriller from the author of The Missing Ones.
Chris Harcourt is dying. At just fifty-one, cancer is claiming his life—but not before his wife Jess delivers a final, devastating blow. On the day of his death, Jess reveals the secret she’s been hiding for decades: she slept with each of his closest friends in cold, calculated revenge for his long-ago affair.
Now, the once-tight foursome is fractured beyond repair . . . and someone is making sure it stays that way.